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Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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W. LEIGH.

VITA METER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 30. 19H],

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LEIGH, 0F CORAOPOLIS, PENNSYLVANIA.

VITA-METER.

Application filed November 80, 1918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM LEIGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at (Joraopolis, in the ounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vita- Meters, of which. the following is a speci fication.

My invention has in view to provide means for graphically representing upon a time piece, as the dial of a clock or watch, any known period of a lifetime, as the present age of a person, in such manner as to represent at a glance the elapsed time and the presumed unexpired or remaining time of a normal life. It provides, by series of annular positions which are successively 0ccupied by the hands of a clock, age periods correspondin to the progress of the hands throughout t e hours of a day, so arranged as to consistently compare any age of a normal lifetime, of say, seventy years, with the progress of the hours and minutes of an entire day, so that as the hands are set to the particular designating annular positions, they will indicate the relative proportionate values of the past and future.

In using the device, which I have denominated a vita meter, and which forms a part of a complete system of presentin the time values of life, I avail myself 0 the well known fact that practically every person of suflicient age habitually glances at a clock or watch many times in the course of each day to ascertain how much or how little time is still available in which to accomplish certain work. Furthermore, and of importance in connection with my invention, that the true significance of the time of day is ascertained more from the relative positions of the hour and minute hands rather than by any particular study of the exact hour and minute numerals to which the hands are pointing.

.In view of the practical application of m invention to any of the purposes to which it may be put, as for instance, a measure of the active and mature working years of life, it is usually unnecessary to utilize or indicate the values of the years of. adolescence,

' and in practical application of the device I have represented it as applied to an indication. of the time values between the ages of seventeen and seventy. It will be understood, however, that any other arbitrary selection or range of years may be used to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Serial No. 264,854.

make the graphic comparison with the twenty-four hour period of a day, as represented by a clock dial, of the usual twelve hour divisions from midnight to noon, and noon to midnight. I therefore arrange the annular divisions in the paths of the hour hand and minute hand respectively, in any suitable number, and identify the division locations of each series with age numbers so located and according to a consecutive schedule covering the time to be indicated, in each series, as to correspond throughout the entire time period with the progressive movement of the clock hands.

In the drawings illustrating the invention and its practical application as a working system,

Figure 1 is a schedule covering a period of years of life and the corresponding time of day as represented by a clock;

Fig. 2 is a face View of a clock dial showing the annular series of age numbers in their comparative positions with relation to the hour and minute positions of the hands Fig. 3 is a similar view of a dial provided with adjustable hour and minute hands; and

Fig. 4 is a face view of a separate ring section bearing on its face similarly arranged indicia for application to a dial and for utilization therewith.

The schedule, Fig. 1, is self explanatory and indicates the relative time value of each year of a selected life period from seventeen to seventy years, with its corresponding time of day of a day of twenty-four hours, from five-fifty a. m. by successively later periods for each additional ear of life, to midnight, corresponding to t e end of a seventy year life.

In applying this schedule to the dial, I provide an annular series of minute hand outlines 2 and a similar series of hour hand outlines 3 representing the pro ressive movements of the hands of a 0100 each having a radial stemoutline 4 and 5 respectively, which outlines may be shown by very light, colored, water marked, or dotted lines, as indicated. Each year of the selected period, as 17 to 70, is represented throughout each series, within its appropriate outline at a position correspondm both in hour and minute series, to the position occupied by the hour and minute hands, according to the schedule, Fig. 1.

Asshown in Fig. 2, some of the outline positions may be identified by two age num- 3. In combination with a clock dial, annular series of age-indicating numbers arranged in progressive relation to the timeindicating positions on the dial, and inclosing outlines therefor in simulation of the hands of a clock.

4. In combination with a clock dial, annular series of age-indicating numbers an ranged in progressive relation to the timeindicating positions on the dial, and adjustable hour and minute hands adapted to be located in registering position with an selected age-indicating number and to inchcate an arbitrary time lapse with relation thereto.

5. In combination with a clock dial, a pre-arranged schedule showing the comparative time values of year periods throughout the hours of a day, and a clock dial having the year periods correspondingly represented thereon in hour and minute series respectively.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

WILLIAM LEIGH.

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